VACANCY! Finance Assistant at British Council

Job Type: Full Time

Qualification: BA/BSc/HND

Experience: 1 year

Location: Abuja

Job Field: Finance / Accounting / Audit 

Location: Abuja, Sub Saharan Africa, NG
Pay band: 4
Contract type: One-year fixed term contract
Alternative locations the role could be based: Nigeria
Department: Finance

Role Purpose

The post holder will be responsible for managing and ensuring financial processes of all FCR programmes within the justice, security, and conflict sector are implemented as per the British Council and EU driven policies and providing support to the Finance Manager and assistance to programme teams to specifically support the payment and invoicing process as required.

Main Accountabilities
The appointed candidate will have the following accountabilities, responsibilities, and main duties:

• To support timely processing of invoices to designated workshops, meetings, and events according to stated requirements.
• Support processing of payments and reconciling records according to agreed time standards for the same.
• Support maintenance of Abuja office cash imprest and support in parking and posting of Petty cash transactions onto SAP.
• Audit travel, procurement, and workshop expenses as may be directed by the Finance Manager, keeping, and recording items in Finance Safe.
• Support printing, filing, scanning, and updating of finance-related documents.
• Support all payment and processing functions of the finance team.
• To assist in taking on responsibilities to support the Programme finance team where necessary and practical.
• Ensure professionalism is demonstrated in own work area and that customer/client needs and perspectives are reflected in own behaviors and focus.
• To support the embedding of continuous learning and improvement into the team.
• To proactively share best practices and learning across the wider EU programmes team.
• To seek to understand the interdependencies and connections that programme office has with other organizations and manage such relationships within its own work area.
• To ensure personal development of IT skills for wider administrative assistance.
• Other administrative work
• As with any business that experiences peaks and troughs of activity, there is likely to be a need to work outside office hours from time to time.

Role-specific Knowledge and Experience
The successful candidate will need to possess the following requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum of 1-year experience in a project finance environment.
• Experience of working on SAP
• Experience of positive contribution to change
• Experience of working as part of a successful team/function.
• High levels of personal effectiveness and the ability to focus on achieving deadlines.
• In depth knowledge of bookkeeping and accounting procedures is a must along with high degree of concentration and an ability to identify accounting discrepancies.
• Ability to maintain and update accounting spreadsheets, journal logs to ensure that it is compliant with organizations rules and regulations, and any other relevant legislation.
• Ability to handle high volumes of financial data and information and should be well acquainted with ways of storing and retrieving it whenever there is any need.

Desirable:

• Evidence of continuous professional development in ACA/ACCA/CPA Professional Accounting qualifications
• Experience of working in a Full Cost Recovery (FCR) project
• Experience of operating in a complex, multi-cultural context
• Computer skills - A good knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite

Essential Requirements:

• Role holder must have existing rights to live and work in the country the role is based.

Salary
NGN5,431,443 annually

Method of Application

Note: A connected and trusted UK in a more connected and trusted world.

Interested and qualified? Go to British Council on careers.britishcouncil.org to apply

Deadline: Oct 19, 2021

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